Siheyuan: Hang Jia Dongxu, smash Banggeng to death!

"What happened? How did you all faint? Who did it?" Qin Ming asked rapidly, firing off a barrage of questions.

Xiao Zhang shook his still dizzy head, trying hard to recall: "I...I don't know, I just felt a pain in the back of my head, and then everything went black and I didn't know anything."

The description is unclear, but it's clear the attacker acted extremely quickly.

Qin Ming's face darkened. He stopped asking questions, stood up abruptly, and kicked open the half-closed door to the duty room.

The sight inside the door made his pupils shrink.

The bed was empty.

Lin Tian and Lin Tangtang, who were supposed to be sleeping on top, have disappeared.

On the ground, Officer Han lay on his side with his eyes closed, but his chest rose and fell slightly, as if... he was just sleeping?

Moreover, her complexion was rosy, her breathing was even, and there was even a faint... comfortable and relaxed smile at the corner of her mouth?

This was in stark contrast to the two disheveled and unconscious colleagues outside the door.

"Xiao Han! Xiao Han! Wake up!" Qin Ming rushed over and shook Xiao Han's shoulders hard.

"Mmm...uh...stop fooling around..."

Officer Han mumbled something in his sleep, then raised his hand and waved it as if shooing away a fly, before turning over and continuing to "sleep."

Qin Ming: "..."

He increased the pressure, practically lifting Xiao Han halfway off the ground. "Han Meimei! Wake up! Something's happened!"

"ah?!"

Officer Han was shaken awake. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked blankly at Qin Ming's anxious face, which was so close to her.

Looking at the empty bed, her mind still not fully processed, she thought, "Uncle Qin...is it dawn yet? How did I end up sleeping on the floor?"

"What do you mean by dawn? Dawn?"

Qin Ming was frantic. "Xiao Han! Where are Lin Tian and Lin Tangtang? Where did they go?"

"Lin Tian? Tangtang?"

Officer Han repeated the two names, his eyes gradually clearing from confusion as memories flooded back into his mind.

Two burly, menacing-looking men burst through the door, intending to grab the child. They stood in front of him to shield him, and then…

"Uncle Qin! Quick! Save Lin Tian and Tangtang! There are... there are two thugs who have broken in! They're very fierce!"

They were going to capture Lin Tian and Tangtang. I... I tried to stop them, but I was... I was knocked unconscious.

She spoke incoherently and urgently, "They were... very strong, with scars on their faces! They didn't look like good people! Uncle Qin, they've kidnapped the children! Go save them!"

Thugs!

A man stormed into a police station to snatch a child!

Qin Ming's heart sank to the bottom, but a strange feeling of "I knew it" actually cleared his chaotic thoughts a little.

It was man-made!

It was a deliberate crime!

It didn't disappear into thin air, nor was it the work of ghosts.

Someone deliberately planned to break into the police station, knock out the police officers, and kidnap Lin Tian and his sister.

Then, the purpose of that sudden fire in the courtyard house... becomes obvious.

"A feint to the east while attacking in the west... luring the tiger away from the mountain..."

Qin Ming gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words, his eyes flashing with cold light.

What a clever scheme!

They used the fire to deplete most of the police force at the police station, leaving the station vulnerable, and then took advantage of the situation to carry out their attack.

The target is clear—it's Lin Tian and Lin Tangtang!

The person who could have a motive, know that Lin Tian was here, and know the location of the duty dormitory... is Yi Zhonghai! Yan Bugui!

Only them!

They're probably desperate now, resorting to such extreme measures as arson and kidnapping... They've completely gone mad.

Moreover, Yang Ruihua appeared at the fire scene...

Could it be that they did this to create chaos, or for some other purpose...?

But that's impossible. How could Yan Bugui joke about his wife's life? So there's only one possibility:

There is only one truth: after Lin Tian and his sister were arrested, the evil spirit used Yang Ruihua to vent its anger.

Qin Ming's mind raced as he tried to piece the fragments together.

Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui probably wanted Lin Tian and his sister to perform what they called an "exorcism ritual".

In any case, the two children are likely in grave danger now that they've fallen into their hands!

"Captain Qin! Captain Qin! Something terrible has happened!! Something terrible has happened!!!"

Just then, Officer Wang rushed in, his face filled with terror.

"What is it now?!"

Qin Ming's heart skipped a beat, and an even worse premonition came over him.

Xiao Wang, breathless, pointed in the direction of the detention room: "Captain Qin... Captain Qin! No... something bad has happened! The detention room is over there."

Qin Huairu and He Yuzhu, they're gone! The door...the door is open! The people...they're gone!

"What?"

Qin Ming suddenly turned around, grabbed Xiao Wang's shoulder, and demanded, "Explain yourself! What do you mean by 'disappeared'?"

"It's...it's just gone!"

Xiao Wang was almost in tears. "When I went to check the detention rooms just now, I found that the door to Sha Zhu's little dark room... was ajar."

I pushed open the door and saw that it was completely empty. The people had run away, and there were no other traces on the ground. It didn't seem like they had been kidnapped; it seemed like they had run out on their own.

Did he run away by himself?

prison Break?

Qin Ming was taken aback, then his brows furrowed even more.

Is Sha Zhu escaping from prison?

At this critical juncture?

Where did he get the key?

Or... did someone open the door from the outside?

Was it Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui who did it?

They kidnapped Lin Tian and his sister, and released Sha Zhu along the way?

Why?

Increase the number of accomplices?

Or is it just misleading the public?

But why not release everyone?

Wait… Qin Ming suddenly realized a detail.

The door to the small dark room was locked with a regular padlock from the outside, and the key was with the officer on duty.

If it was opened from the outside, then someone took the key or picked the lock.

But if it's the work of evil spirits, then there's no need for a key; they can simply disappear into thin air, just like Jia Zhangshi did...

and many more!

Vanished into thin air?

Qin Ming's gaze swept over the empty bed again, and he recalled Jia Zhangshi's mysterious disappearance in the dark room and her body scattered in two different places.

If it were an evil spirit wanting to take away Lin Tian and his sister, or to let Sha Zhu go, would it need to go through all this trouble?

Knock out the police?

Picking the lock?

Leaving human traces?

This seems more like...man-made.

Did they deliberately create the illusion of a "human crime" to cover up some more unbelievable truth?

Or... is it a deliberate attempt to mislead the police?

Qin Ming's mind was a bit of a mess.

The clues of evil spirits committing crimes and human crimes are mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

But one thing he was certain of: the disappearance of Lin Tian and his sister was inextricably linked to Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui.

And Sha Zhu's escape was most likely part of their plan.

"Immediately seal off all entrances and exits, and inspect all traces inside and outside the police station, especially the perimeter wall, for signs of climbing or damage."

Qin Ming quickly gave the order, his voice regaining its calm and decisiveness: "Visit residents in the surrounding area who may still be active at night, and look for suspicious persons, especially those with children or those who are acting suspiciously."

He glanced at Officer Han, who was still crying and blaming himself, and added, "Han, carefully recall the physical characteristics of those two criminals and describe them to the comrade who is drawing the sketch."

Xiao Zhang and Xiao Liu, you too, think carefully about whether you saw or heard anything unusual before you fainted.

The officers immediately sprang into action, and the atmosphere inside the police station became tense and tense once again.

Qin Ming looked out the window at the still-lingering night, his fists clenched tightly.

Yi Zhonghai, Yan Bugui...

Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tangtang...where are you right now?

Is he still... alive?

In his blind spot, an absurd thought flashed through his mind: if it really is an evil spirit, why go to such great lengths?

Why not just make the two children disappear?

Just like how it made Jia Zhangshi disappear and then reappear...

It seems that Sha Zhu has been rescued.

……